Those "best-of" book lists that are popping up on all the book review sites and blogs? Forget 'em. Take a look at Prospect Magazine's Over-rated and Under-rated Books of the Year instead.
What's the most over-rated? My current read: Dick Dawkins's God Delusion. No surprise there.
Nice quotes abound:
What's the most over-rated? My current read: Dick Dawkins's God Delusion. No surprise there.
Nice quotes abound:
Suzanne Franks writer & broadcaster
Snow, Orhan Pamuk (Faber). One should not say this when he has just won the Nobel prize and survived state harassment, but I found it tedious.
Alan Wolfe academic
The God Delusion. Written with so little tolerance and so much fervour that fundamentalists will recognise Dawkins as one of their own.
i'm glad "snow" got a vote for most-overrated! haha
ReplyDeleteGuess you're not the only one who thinks he's a bore :D
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